The corporate intelligence community is keeping a close eye on a legal battle between Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas and Ukrainian-born businessman Val Sklarov. Both have hired private investigators to exploit their opponent's weaknesses.
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Corporate Intel US lawmakers' plan to streamline the acquisition of commercial data has sparked an outcry within the intelligence community. Several agencies are working to have the reform amended.
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Agencies Crypto networks (2/3) – A group of Emirati sheikhs has been drumming up interest in a "sovereign-asset backed" stablecoin this year. While they have drawn interest from significant investors, the project's link to the Al Nahyan and Al Maktoum families remains uncertain.
A former senior official at Russia's state nuclear firm Rosatom, who is close to the presidential administration's deputy head, has been chosen to head the Kremlin administration's newly created strategic partnership and cooperation directorate.
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Agencies Céline Bayou, who currently heads the French defence ministry's DG for International Relations and Strategy's Ukraine-Russia department is to join the foreign affairs ministry, where she will run the Center for Analysis, Forecasting, and Strategy.
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